Paulo Freire Quotes

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except by brainwashing, which is the very opposite of genuine teaching.

My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of Lofton Greene - he was a guy that my dad was familiar with. He was from our hometown. And I watched the game and I said I didn't see this guy doing a lot of coaching. And my dad told me, well, it's just like a teacher - which he was - he said if you do a good job teaching during the week, when they take the test on Friday, that's not the time you have to do a lot of demonstrative things.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

I don’t believe curriculums are the key to education, I believe teachers are.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

...being an effective teacher is a high calling.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

As all born teachers, he was primarily a student.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.